Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses, sentence 17
In China and Japan, incense clocks burned slowly; balls tied on threads dropped onto a plate at set times, like an alarm.
Who acts: incense clocks · What happens: burn, tie, drop · To what, where: China, balls, threads, plate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incense clocks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 China | case |
| 2 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 burned | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Japan | cc |
| 4 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 China | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 clocks | punct |
| 6 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clocks | compound |
| 7 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 burned | nsubj |
| 8 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 burned | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 balls | punct |
| 11 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 clocks | conj |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 balls | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 threads | case |
| 14 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tied | obl |
| 15 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 threads | acl |
| 16 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 18 plate | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 plate | det |
| 18 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 times | case |
| 20 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 times | amod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dropped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 alarm | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 alarm | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 alarm | det |
| 25 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dropped | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | incense clocks and balls | China and Japan | slowly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in china=Location | |||
| 2 | tie | participle | balls not said here | on threads | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on thread=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | drop | participle | threads not said here | a plate | time | like a alarm | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto plate=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:122-clocks-before-clocks.lesson:17.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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